Christmas was never my favorite holiday. Now it's my #1 holiday. I get to appreciate the love of Christ even more during CHRISTmas. Happy holidays everyone.
Javier0304 he was born somewhere between April-September. Some scholars believe around Passover and other believe around Sukkot. Either way it wasn’t in December because during his birth in the book of Luke the sheep’s were out on the field at night. Something they don’t do during the winter especially at night
@@dislike_button33 - If you are a 'true christian', then you would know that demons are always steering people away from God. The alternative is that Charles Dickens's story is a good lesson regardless of believing in Christianity, but this channel would NEVER claim that right??? So they must believe the story does work in the eyes of Christianity, ergo the ghost problem.
The life of the real Saint Nicolas is much more interesting than portrayed in this video. For instance, he was one of the Bishop present at the council of Nicea. He did give gifts, but under much more elaborate circumstances. He was a defender of the faith.
isn't the council of nicea the reason why we don't have a complete version of the gospel? they ruled to take it out of the bible because it wasn't "Canon" ? 🤔
At Nicea, they held the Council to address the heresy of Arianism and created the Nicene Creed. St. Nicholas also famously punched Arius, the heretic bishop.
Actually we have the complete records of what happened and who attended the council of nicea, and saint nick was nowherer to be seen. Also no records mention him as a bishop.. historians suspect him to either be a lesser clergy that never attended or a medieval fabrication, since the middle ages is the first time he is mentioned.
@@i_cri_evertim Catholics are the first Christians. Editing to point out that Catholic is not a race but the belief! So outraged protestants who argue the first Christians were Jews missed my point completely.
@@Acidic-ue2ml They are catholics too. Just not Roman Catholics. They belong to the catholic (universal) church. Its in their Niciean creed that they are catholics. Both Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians are the first Christians. Both were united as one catholic and apostolic church until the Great Schism in 1054.
I've noticed that pretty much every network has pulled the Charlie Brown Christmas special, which is one of the best explanations of Christmas, outside of the bible. It's not officially Christmas until I've watched it!
What are you talking about? Charlie Brown Christmas can be easily found on TV every year. And even if the cartoon wasn't included, there are plenty of other Christmas movies that have similar messages and Christian overtones.
My mom once told me that the reason we exchange gifts on Christmas Day is because the birth of Jesus was God’s gift to us. Either way, Merry Christmas!
because during those days the Jews gained relief from their enemies. That was the month when their sorrow was turned into rejoicing and their mourning into a holiday. They were to be days of feasting, rejoicing, and of sending gifts to one another and to the poor. So the Jews agreed to continue the practice they had begun, as Mordecai had written them to do. Esther 9:22-23 CSB
Irish Eggs see this documentary th-cam.com/video/fTv9Annd0vY/w-d-xo.html&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0lhA8pchsOHE4PSaicUaiNHxtz8-W8h68HvAq_UMe2ErKBWy6fEGGzyLQ
MrCOLBSTAH you heard correctly the Bible never mentions JESUS CHRIST birthday nor does it says to celebrate it, it's false and yes it was adopted for power and political reasons
@@swepea6558 cool. I just didn't know which story was true. I heard that it was a winter vail festival that celebrated a bountiful fall or rebirth for spring or something like that. Then the church took over those areas and imposed their martial law, but people still wanted to celebrate, so they found a way to stick jesus in there. And im not religious but isn't easter his birthday anyway? Or... I don't know.
@@MrCOLBSTAH This is mostly untrue. Christmas is celebrated on December 25th for reasons pertaining to Jewish customs; the idea that a holy man will die on the same day he is conceived. Since Jesus died in spring a couple of days past Passover, the Church took that day, then went nine months later, and assumed he would have been born in December. Also, the date and holiday were already well-established by the early 4th century AD, when Christians were very much persecuted by the Roman Empire and killed by the thousands until Emperor Constantine converted to the faith. While it is true that Christmas has adapted several pagan customs such as Yule logs and trees which became Christmas trees, this is not unique, nor necessarily a bad thing. This is just a natural result of cultures evolving over time, and can be seen in many other religious holidays, such as the Hindu festival Diwali getting its customs and trappings from older cultural festivals. Also, the church never imposed Martial Law- they were not the ones in charge, after all, and lacked an army to actually impose martial rule even if they wanted to.
@@MichaelVileleagueofintrigue Are you sure that you are a real Christian? Christianity is the religion which teaches love and forgiveness. maybe you are reading wrong books, check it well. Be a good Christian if you are one of us. God bless you.
I am an atheist and i always look forward to Christmas! Not only for the presents, but for the snow, the decorations, and the friendly atmosphere it always brings. Merry Christmas! I'm happy to see PU make a video that has nothing to do with partisan politics, even though i often like those too. This is just a nice educational video about a great time of year.
Flyin Yoku : God loves you Flyin Yoku. Not sure how you can be a atheist when it’s obviousl man could not have created himself. You ever wonder about the human body? You ever wonder about plant life and the beauty of flowers? Anyway Merry Christmas 🎄.
Christian here. I can't see why people get so militant about Christmas. Believer or not, it's celebrated with only positive customs. People even celebrate in Japan (1% Christian) bcause it's fun!
Having two young kids will make anyone fall in love with Christmas. Seeing their faces light up as the day grows near is an experience unlike any other.
A great reminder though because it is one of the most important battles of our time. Secularists have gotten so bad that only 90 percent of americans celebrate Christmas and people will sometimes say happy holidays! Truly horrifying!
@@Colddirector Then you can start by bitching at the left and people who support the left for they own and run 85% of ALL the "greedy corporations" across the board! Funny how rich actors and TV stars promote "socialism" yet benefit from capitalism!! Of course the left doesn't give 2 shits about Christmas or Christianity either! Just so you know, capitalism has gotten more people out of poverty than any other system EVER! 120 years ago the poverty rate was over 80% today it's less than 8%! Retailers might "capitalize" on the holiday, but if they didn't "create" there wouldn't be much to "give"!
Lol you know Christmas is a stolen holiday just like Easter Christian's don't have there own holidays they stole them to force and saprese non Christians christianity was built on murder and hate it is not a good mythology to believe in
Juniper it originates from astronomy. Winter solstice. All religions have blood on their hands. Islam is currently the only religion that likes to remain in the Stone Age and keep their hands bloody.
Jebus Christ yes we celebrate every Stone Age holiday today still. From Halloween to Easter these are all outside religious holidays honoring false Gods which later was adopted by the Catholic Church only to expand there empire. It has no roots in the Bible or the teaching of Christ
chulo flow there is no magic sky daddy. All religious texts are nothing more than fairytales. Except the Koran. It’s the magic book of rape and murder written by the homicidal pedophile midget muhammad.
Christians has been celebrating CHRIST MASS for 2000 years, in Constantine and Syria, the pagan sceptic start in 1974. So you need to stfu, your pagan propaganda isn't working anymore
Agreed! We don't even know when Jesus was born. His birth-date was chosen by the Catholic Church in a strategic way to convert the pagans who had a celebration on December 21.
Christmas gifts started in England - gift Boxing Day when rich people gave gifts to their servants who they mistreated the rest of the year. This one day of gifts was to make the masters look good. The same purpose today - trying to buy love, but with gifts that people don't need (in much of the West), instead of kind behaviors throughout the year. Also shopping addicts get their dopamine hits by spending more money.
Merry Christmas.I sure everyone can agree that this is a festivals that most are celebrating even when some that the purpose of it is lost,others argue about is origins.
Believing in God has nothing to do with king and country.. because I love God almighty what I don't idolize or what your land of any kind.. I pledge no Allegiance to no country no King no leader and will not go to war for no country...
There should have been at least a mention of Dec 25 having no historical connection to the Birth of Jesus as well as some of the prechristian elements of many traditions.
@Ride the Wave Don't get me wrong I'm all in for Christmas but if your not going to cover history don't call it history. I also feel like this opens us up to critics who can say we are misinformed or ignorant. We did take something bad and make it good and that's great but they should have said so in the video.
@Ride the Wave I'm a Christian too, and I love Christmas and the celebration of Jesus' birth, but I can acknowledged that this video does ignore a lot of the history of Christmas. Biblically and historically speaking, Jesus was likely born in Fall. Also, this video leaves out the pagan origins of some traditions, such as the Christmas tree or the choice of Dec. 25th. If PragerU want's to make a history video of Christmas, they shouldn't leave out half of the history.
@@Kevinclearysharpstuff I agree, I'm also a Christian and I love Christmas. I was expecting a little more detail on that in the video. Maybe they should make a second part with the same guy, I like how he told the whole thing.
Jesus is the son of God. Jesus was before he was conceived. Yes he was born on a day and yes his parents had to report the day of his birthday. I think it might be God's will that his birthday got lost through history, because Jesus was with God since the beginning.
I enjoy PragerU and love Christmas but was a little bit dissapointed that you did not mention the Roman origin of the holiday (the tree, etc). Greece, Rome and Christianity are the origins of our wonderful western civilization and our traditions are a mix of them including Christmas.
Because the liturgical feast day of Christmas is about celebrating Jesus' birth, only some cultural customs came from earlier traditions, and since our modern celebration of Christmas comes from the Christian feast day, yeah.
They didn't talk about Saturnalia because of the lie that Christmas is a holiday about the Biblical Messiah and His coming into the world instead of the true reason for the season as the birth of Tammuz the pagan sun god. Read "The Two Babylons" by Alexander Hislop if you want to know the truth.
Except that almost all of the “traditions” we ascribe to Christmas were actually already being done by Pagans. Christianity began by co-opting a lot of Pagans holidays & rituals.
Not the Christianity faith itself, but rather man-made practices established throughout the centuries, especially via Catholicism. The first "Christmas" was established by Romans who wanted to secretly continue practicing their sun worship rituals (hence why "Christmas" is done on Dec. 25-generally around the time winter solstice when the sun shines more throughout the following months of the upcoming year).
Christians has been celebrating CHRIST MASS for 2000 years, in Athens, Constantine, Aleppo, Egypt and Asyria, the pagan sceptic start in 1974. So you need to stfu, your pagan propaganda isn't working anymore
@@matthew6335 would be a good comment if it was actually correct. Christianity first started taking hold in europe around the fourth to fifth century, and that's when the winter solstice holidays becam christmas. so you were only off by a couple hundred of years.
@@jontaii152 of course you know better than apostles and early church, btw kid Christians has been celebrating Christmas even before its spread to Europe. In Assyria, Alexandria, Allepo , Constantinople and Athens. But of course 12 years old with internet knows better
325 AD or CE, winter solstice, Pagan Holiday. You forgot about "Burger Meister-Meister Burger"/Town Mayor-Master Citizen and he hates toys and toys hate him.
The Dec 25th end of year winter solstice celebrations existed prior to Christmas. Christmas originally was marked when the star Sirius rose about the horizon in late August/ early September. Christians usurped the more popular pagan celebration.
Rusty Reno correction: CATHOLICS usurped pagan celebrations. The word catholic means universal. It was Rome’s attempt of merging pagan worship with Christian beliefs, to make a one world religion. I must say, I think they succeeded
@@ItstheHOFF1984 That's right! I recommend to watch and listen *The Truth About Christmas* -series by _David Pawson:_ _"Jesus was not born on December 25, though some believe He may have been conceived then. Mary gave birth nine months later during the Feast of Tabernacles (September). As ’mas’ indicates, this Christian celebration (which Christ never told us to keep) was an invention of Pope Gregory in an attempt to wean British converts from their mid-winter orgy. It marks the ’rebirth’ of the sun after the shortest day, a pagan fertility cult festival whose remnants are still very much with us today covered over with commercial consumerism. In this video David starts with the traditions that make up ’Christmas’ today, how the Church has tried and failed to keep Christmas Christian, and finishes by correcting common Christian inaccuracies that have been perpetuated through our carols and children’s teachings - ’’what the Bible actually says about the birth of Christ’’."_ _Part 1:_ *The Traditions of Christmas* th-cam.com/video/HqwxP4hJSzE/w-d-xo.html _Part 2:_ *The Church and Christmas* th-cam.com/video/4pJZnDamlnk/w-d-xo.html _Part 3:_ *What the Bible says about Christ's Birth* th-cam.com/video/Dr2dCrkQBcY/w-d-xo.html
@@nostrandholdings2324 Nowhere in the Bible does it state that the early Jewish Christians had to adapt pagan traditions to appeal to the gentiles. It does state that the gentiles did not have to be circumcised or follow the Jewish food laws.
It's celebrating the birth of Christ. Why don't you lighten up? I agree He probably wasn't born on Dec 25th. So what?! The main thing is we're celebrating the birth of the Savior of the world. Relax. Merry Christmas!
I heard in a Catholic Homily that the reason it’s in December was because December is a month associated with darkness and lack of sunlight (depending on where you live obviously) but it’s associated like that nonetheless. When Jesus was born, it represents the light coming into the world to conquer the darkness (December).
@Alex Rhone Said the WASP who believes all of history revolves around him and that Christians of the first and second centuries in India, Ethiopia and the Middle East simply don't exist.
@Ride the Wave It's relevant because this is supposed to be a video about *the history of Christmas* . I'm a Christian, but it's straight wrong to claim that Christians "invented" Christmas traditions. We stomped on other religions and forced them to follow us, and stole their traditions to stitch together into the Christmas we have now. It's incredibly un-Christlike to force people to believe in Jesus against their will, not to mention that forced faith isn't real faith. They didn't even acknowledge that. I would expect nothing less of PragerU, though. They're one of the least Christ-like "Christian" organizations I can think of.
This is the first PragerU video that I will actually give a like. The whole video, I was expecting it to take a sharp turn into "and the evil Left ruined it!" like every other video but you actually gave a detailed history on where all our traditions came from. I may not believe in Santa Claus anymore but in Christmas 2017, when I had my own job and income for the first time as part of my transition program, it felt *good* being able to buy gifts for my family. That was the first *real* Christmas for me.
How can any _“History of Christmas”_ completely leave out *SATURNALIA* or *YULE* or go nowhere near Winter Solstice and the related tradition of candlelight…?! Also, no mention at all about why late December was _selected_ to celebrate Jesus's birth, long after his time. This “history” deliberately neglects a lot of our heritage! Shame.
@@ShadowCrystallux Christians has been celebrating CHRIST MASS for 2000 years, in Athens, Constantine, Aleppo, Egypt and Asyria, the pagan sceptic start in 1974. So you need to stfu, your pagan propaganda isn't working anymore
@@matthew6335 yeah? of course, that's the whole point. many countries had winter solstice celebrations, and then christianity came and made them all about jesus. That's why christmas isnt really a legitimate holiday (historically that is)
I've never liked the idea of cutting down real trees to be used for a month and thrown out but I do like planting them in back yard and watching them grow since I have a preference for evergreen trees.
@Ride the Wave Because the whole point of this video was the history of Christmas, and they essentially left out the entire history. Christmas is a continuation of the Germanic festival of Yule in which the ancient Germanic people celebrated the fact that they had gotten through the coldest part of winter. They would decorate trees and hang holly and mistletoe. The evergreen wreaths we make today are a continuation of the wreaths made thousands of years ago, which represent the sun. What they presented in the video is essentially fake history. The idea that Santa comes from some guy who would throw bags of money through windows which would land in people socks is absolute nonsense. It's essentially propaganda.
Webis Tebis, Personally I would mind living in Florida an escape the bleak and depressing fall and winter weather conditions of Massachusetts also instead of evergreens I'd plant a wide variety of palm trees and shrubbery in my yard if I lived in Florida.
I'm a Christian and I disagree with this one. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that December 25th was the birth day of Christ. Christmas is a paganistic holiday.
It is already facing problems my friend. SJW'S are complaining about Santa being a white male, but this people seem to forget the european origin of Christmas.
Interceptor Before I get into this, I want to preface my statements with the fact that I’m not a liberal. Christmas Day is not the birth of the “Jesus” it is actually the birth of Nimrod/Mithras/Osiris in his metempsychosis as Tammuz. (A simple google search will show this). The Bible actually speaks against the celebration of this pagan ‘holiday’ in Jeremiah 10:1-4.
True, the earliest Christians didn't celebrate his birth, only his resurrection. But by the year 300, 1700 years ago, some had begun celebrating his birth. I see no reason not to. Should I also not use spaces or lowercase letters, perhaps not use j or u? BECAVSEIVLIVSCAESARDIDNOTVSETHEM. 'Someone else didn't do something' is not an argument. If people had only decided to start celebrating his birthday 20 years ago, I'd do it. Seems perfectly logical to me. Google honors scientists, artists, and various historical figures on their birthdays all of the time. Why shouldn't I? Sure, the December 25th date probably isn't accurate. In fact, I think it's probably somewhere within a 30 day period of the 25th. I also don't really care that it isn't the exact date. Records from 2000 years ago are pretty hard to come by. We don't even know the birth years - not days, but years - of multiple Roman emperors. All of that said, based on other information people have made estimates - so the date can be narrowed down to two possible month long periods. Either a month long period during early summer or a month period during early winter. The earliest non-biblical sources that we have, one from the 200s and the other from the 300s, guess that it happened in that winter period. And, well, if you're gonna celebrate a birthday, you gotta pick a single day. There are only 365 days in the year, the fact that they estimated his birth to be near the week long Roman Saturnalia festival is a coincidence, in my opinion. Just like how I have the same birthday as two other students in my high school class of only fifty-six students.
Yeah, just the magi at his birth and all the art about the magi among the early Christians found in burial tombs and sarcophagi, and the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. A lot of attention among the early Christians but absolutely not Christmas. That makes sense.
You forgotten about Russian New Years when Father Moroz comes around and gives everyone (including non-Christians) presents. So their New Years is like our Christmas, without a Jesus.
Problem is, that Father Moroz are closer to paganism, that to Christians' saint Nickolas His whole image was established by soviets governement which deny any religion identification.
And the evergreen boughs/trees (representing fertility gods) of the Celts. And the Yule Log which comes from the pagan tradition of the Scandinavians. That doesn't fit the Prager U narrative. And it certainly doesn't fit with the Biblical instruction of Deuteronomy Chapter 12.
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People are nicer during Christmas because they have some days off work. Edit: Allow me to share a secret on how to improve Christmas for you fine folks... Make the gifts yourselves, And if you don't know how to make anything that can serve as a gift, Maybe its time to find a hobby.
That hasn't been my experience at all since at work more seem to be angry, aggressive and impatient in the retail store where I work and out in the parking lot in fact I've gotten lots of dirty looks when I head out to collect carriages and people seem to be watching each other more too which tells me that's there's a lot suspicion and animus out there that just seems to be the vibe I'm getting it's like a lot of people are watching and waiting to see if someone will do something to them.
@Vash Matrix Thanks you too buddy. I have wildly diffrent believes than you, but I enjoy christmas a lot, I think more than some highly religious christians
So incredible! All of it wonderful & based on & surrounding the birth of Christ. Celebrating his life, love, peace, joy, giving, family & everything that is amazing about Christianity! Merry Christmas! 💒
Thank you, channel created by a Jewish guy for explaining my Christmas traditions. And thank you other Jewish people for giving us some of the best Christmas songs ever written.
@@sincityblue03 No, he didn't. He's just one of those fun killing fundamentalists who hates Christmas, Easter, and any other time we celebrate the great truths of Christianity.
@@theoldsaxon6484 What you think non-Christians think of those holidays: the Grinch What non-Christians actually think of those holidays: time off with family while the "oppressed majority" fights a fake war on [holiday] nobody else cares about
Although it's based on a pagan holiday, we here in the Philippines celebrate it as Jesus' birthday. Santa Claus isn't really a thing here and at a young age we already know he isn't real, not like how the west lie to their kids. Gifts are appreciated but not a requirement, well maybe in Christmas parties. We wake up at midnight of 24th and the family eats together.
Later departing from its pagan roots, Yule underwent Christianized reformulation, resulting in the term Christmastide. Many present-day Christmas customs and traditions such as the Yule log, Yule goat, Yule boar, Yule singing, and others stem from pagan Yule traditions. Terms with an etymological equivalent to Yule are still used in Nordic countries and Estonia to describe Christmas and other festivals occurring during the winter holiday season.
Yeah... I recommend to watch and listen *The Truth About Christmas* -series by _David Pawson:_ _"Jesus was not born on December 25, though some believe He may have been conceived then. Mary gave birth nine months later during the Feast of Tabernacles (September). As ’mas’ indicates, this Christian celebration (which Christ never told us to keep) was an invention of Pope Gregory in an attempt to wean British converts from their mid-winter orgy. It marks the ’rebirth’ of the sun after the shortest day, a pagan fertility cult festival whose remnants are still very much with us today covered over with commercial consumerism. In this video David starts with the traditions that make up ’Christmas’ today, how the Church has tried and failed to keep Christmas Christian, and finishes by correcting common Christian inaccuracies that have been perpetuated through our carols and children’s teachings - ’’what the Bible actually says about the birth of Christ’’."_ _Part 1:_ *The Traditions of Christmas* th-cam.com/video/HqwxP4hJSzE/w-d-xo.html _Part 2:_ *The Church and Christmas* th-cam.com/video/4pJZnDamlnk/w-d-xo.html _Part 3:_ *What the Bible says about Christ's Birth* th-cam.com/video/Dr2dCrkQBcY/w-d-xo.html
@@Sg-gspagans didn’t have Santa, didn’t have grinch, didn’t decorate evergreen trees, even if it came from pagan it doesn’t really matter because now it’s a Christian holiday, literally nobody is worshipping a pagan god when they celebrate Christmas
@@mickski548you are aware the Christmas is mostly a secular holiday that is even celebrated by non Christians. FYI pagans did decorate evergreen trees during Winter Solstice. Btw the grinch is a Dr Seuss character. 😂
Christmas comes from a Pegan holiday by the way. Also, if you could please point out the part of the Bible when it says December 25th is the birthday of Christ. Edit: Also, why should we behave so nicely around one month of the year? Any truly good person wouldn't use Christmas as an excuse to be nice and happy to other's and themselves.
Bible isn't the only source of god's message as the protestants would let you to believe. And also a lot pf traditions in Abrahamic religions are derived from older religions.
@@Seannery11 What other place shows "God's Message"? Also, if you consider what he's done, would you really want to worship him? In the Bible, he killed every man, woman, and child, just because he didn't like how they chose to live.
You are correct: To begin with, the word "Christmas" is nowhere mentioned in the Bible. Furthermore, there is no biblical evidence that any of the original apostles ever observed what we know as Christmas. In fact, historians and biblical scholars have clearly demonstrated that Christmas was never observed by the early New Testament Church. What's more, we observe the wrong day. Jesus was born nowhere near December 25th. This is best illustrated by a well-known Christmas carol, The First Noel. The words, you probably remember, go like this: "The first Noel, the angel did say, was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay. In fields where they lay keeping their sheep, on a cold winter's night that was so deep." The song is beautiful, but the words do not make sense and are contradictory. What shepherd in his right mind is going to keep his sheep out in the open on a freezing "winter's night"? True enough, the New Testament says there were "... shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night" (Luke 2:8). But it is a historical fact that shepherds in Judaea brought in their flocks from the fields when autumn commenced (September-October), and sent them back at the beginning of spring (March-April). There is no way Christ could have been born on December 25th
Beth Mitchell I mean, it’s kinda not. As a Baptist myself, I can say with assurance that God can speak in other forms, direct or indirect. And it all depends on how you interpret things
Christmas started before christ; Saturnalia for Romans and Greeks, the celebration of winter solstice for other indo-european groups(Celts, Germans, Slavs, etc), in general it was a celebration of harvest and preparation for winter, christianity just rebranded and adopted these traditions to fit they're own narrative, even historians would tell you today that Jesus was born probably around March. That's why Christmas is more of a cultural phenomenom than a religious one.
It truly is the most wonderful time of the year. Christmas is what you make of it. If you choose to be selfish, materialistic, greedy, or apathetic, then Christmas for you, will be a meaningless and commercialized holiday. If you welcome the birth of our Lord and live the spirit of Christmas, then you'll feel its joy and its magic. Merry Christmas, God bless all. 🙏🎅
@Ride the Wave no no he's speaking the truth. Christmas was originally a celebration for the winter solstice. In order to convert the pagans though, Christians allowed the celebration with the condition that it be changed from winter solstice to birth of Jesus(even though its speculated that Jesus was born somewhere around September or some shit.) Don't automatically think just cause some people don't buy this propaganda that they are "leftist" or "Atheist." You make yourself look more false when you throw the first insult in a discussion.
That was a nice video, although it didn't mention everything. There were some stuff that you forgot to mention, like that Christmas hasn't always been celebrated in December and some Christmas traditions were taken from the pagan traditions of the Yuletide. Christmas was moved to December by the Catholics in about AD 300 to coincide with the winter solstice and take over some pagan holidays of the time and attracted more pagans to convert to Christianity. Jesus probably wasn't born in December, but was probably born in September; but yes it is his birth that separates the calendar. So yea, this video is not completely accurate, but that's ok for a 5:40 minute video. Merry Xmas.
The first time a evergreen tree was taken and put up as (undecorated) christmas tree was in 1441 in Tallinn, current Estonia. It was 16-hundreds, when this tradition mainly spread around in Germany. And another sidenote, decorated christmas tree was first put up in neighbouring country, Riga, current Latvia in 1510. (Though, some evidence would put that also into Tallinn) Get your facts right. :)
You left out the part about Christmas taking over Winter Solstice celebrations, Christmas trees actually coming from pagan culture and Jesus' birth being celebrated in summer among other times previously because no one knew when it supposedly happened. Christmas was a co-opting of pagan celebrations just like Easter.
To be more accurate Christmas is actually a Pagan holiday that the christians adopted, also known as "Yule." Everything about it is pagan. The trees, the feasting, the stories, the traditions. All pagan.
@Gabe Norman It has nothing to do with my political views at all. How about doing some research and seeing the facts for yourself before committing to full ignorance and stupidity?
Do you know why Christmas is celebrated on December 24/25? In reality we don't know what date Jesus was born, and there's even discussion on which year it happened (between 4 BC to 6 AD), or if he existed at all, since the proof of his existence is pretty weak. The real reason we celebrate on December 24/25 (depending on which country) is because European pagans had a celebration on the Winter Solstice on December 21, and so The Catholic Church chose the date we all know in a strategic way to convert pagans. This shows how Christianity have been affected and influenced by other beliefs throughout history. Speaking of Norway, in Scandinavia Christmas is called 'Jul', after the Norse pagan celebration 'Jólablót'. Another example of how old pagan traditions still affects us. We might have change the reason for a celebration, but the name still remains. And 'Jul' is one of the most inclusive names, because if you say "I celebrate Jul", it doesn't automatically translates to "I celebrate the birth of Jesus".
Gabe Norman Well hello creotard! Fancy meeting you here. And yes, the Jesus story is most likely a myth. The various stories about him were written decades after he supposedly died by biased Christians who were eager to promote their new religion. And they copied from other mythological stories. Jesus have many similarities with older pagan heroes, like Heracles, Mithra and Horus. Hell, the story of children being slaughtered is a copy of the birth story of Moses. The only secular proofs for Jesus’s existence are short passages written by the historians Tacitus and Josephus, but they lived after Jesus, and didn’t give any source for their information. And even if you’re using the Gospels as evidence, there are contradicts to what miracles Jesus preformed, when he died, who discovered the empty tomb, and even on his birth story. According to Matthew Jesus was born when Herod was king, and that Herod was the one who tried to kill Jesus and slaughtered every babies in the land. The real Herod died in the year 4 BC, and there are no historic records a mass murder of babies at the time, something that wouldn’t go unnoticed by historians. Luke on the other hand claims that Jesus was born during a universal census that was ordered by the Roman emperor Augustus, and was conducted when Cyrenius was governor of Syria. Augustus never ordered a census across the empire. And while Cyrenius did conduct a local census, that occurred in the year 6 AD. You see, with such contradictions it is no wonder why many start to doubt whether or not Jesus really existed. And have you ever wondered why the Jew don’t consider Jesus as the Messiah? It’s because he doesn’t fulfill the requirements the Messiah must have accomplished. What’s most likely is that a man named Jesus existed, but was just a great Rabbi or morality teacher who was executed for blasphemy or for speaking out against the Romans, and who gained cult status after his death. Even amongst early Christians there were disagreements on whether or not he was the son of God. If he were here today, he wouldn’t even recognize himself with the way he is viewed by those who claims to be his followers.
@Gabe Norman If you don't know that George Washington existed, then you are dumber than you realize. XD And no, that's not how it works. Not only do you lack understanding of the scientific method, but also how historical events ar being researched. We don't know if the Jesus from the Bible truly existed, because like I've mentioned, there's no evidence from the time he supposedly lived. Most writings about hime were written decades, even centuries after his supposed death, and there's no physical depiction of him before some time around 500 AD. We know that people like Alexander the Great and Julius Cesar existed both because there are writing about them by both their friends and enemies and physical depictions of them from the time they lived, and because their actions have great impacts on the known world. The same can not be said about Jesus. The biggest impacts of Christianity were thanks to apostles like Paul.
You need to correct your video! St Nicholas was not from nor bishop of Bari in Italy. He was the Christian bishop of Myra in Lycia, modern Turkey. When the Christian city was going to fall to Islamic armies, Greek sailors took st. Nicholas body to Bari which was then part of the Christian Byzantine Empire. His body has remained there ever since.
@@grad5257 I did not mention any dates in my post. I did not think that was necessary to the point I was making about St. Nicolas not being from Bari. I could have made my point clearer by adding those dates. Thank you. Also, St. Nicholas was actually alive until the 4th century. He was at the first Ecumenical Council in Nicea 325.
Irving Berlin also wrote the song, "Happy *Holidays*" for the TV special, "*Holiday* Inn", but Prager U seemed to have forgotten this little tidbit. Seriously, there's no war on Christmas. Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and have a happy new year.
12/25 is Biblically documented as the *conception* date of Jesus Christ, if one understands that 'the course of abia' in Luke 1 KJV is a set time of the year, 1 Chronicle 24:10 KJV, (abia is Greek and Abijah is Hebrew of the same word). It takes a bit of study and calculating the journeys of John The Baptist's father and knowing that John The Baptist is 6 months older than Jesus. Luke 1:36 KJV _And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren._ The virgin conception has a higher symbolic meaning of a newly repentant person 'conceiving' God's Word within themselves. The etymology of 'betrothed' is Be Truthed.
Christians has been celebrating CHRIST MASS for 2000 years, in Constantine and Syria, the pagan sceptic start in 1974. So you need to stfu, your pagan propaganda isn't working anymore
@@matthew6335 um dude christmas is a pagan holiday which was adopted by the church later on.If that is not the case then show me where in the bible is christmas or jesus birthday mentioned?
@@TheCommun3 it was made in order to convert people to Christian. In fact some people where still practicing their religion on the down low and instead of having to punish them they adopted practice of pagans in order to really convert them which worked. Christmas is not the only thing adopted they even converted a lot of people with a see we are just a different name of the same God. It's why it became so popular the adaptability of the religion.
It does my heart good to know that it is Christ's birth that inspires the grandest celebration in the American calendar Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night
@Ride the Wave i see, you misunderstood my comment. What i mean horrible is, saturnalia are tradition of child sacrifice. I'm not a leftist anyway. So chill
Look at this guy,, who doesn't actually know what paganism is, stuck in the medieval belief that anyone who doesn't worship their god MUST be sacrificing children! Look at what you read, my man, what kinda sane person would sacrifice babies? Definitely not a pagan, I can tell you that much. You *do* know pagans worship *NATURE*, right? What's nature gonna do with a buncha pubescents? Honestly, my man, there ain't no way I take you seriously with this bull.
@Ride the Wave To be fair, my comment was directed at the original commenter, not you. I might argue that abortion would be a better fate than suffering at the hands of an unfit parent. I don't quite see what everyone's problem is. Either way, it doesn't have much of anything to do with pagan traditions, as I'm actually studying these religions to see myself to new worship and find nothing but good vibes in the worlds of Wicca and paganism. Not a single hint of sacrifices or anything. (haven't found anything to do yet, so I remain unaffiliated)
@Ride the Wave Well thanks for being cool about it, my man. I do totally respect how you feel and all, and that is an interesting way to look at it. I just personally don't look at it the same way, if I were to look at it at all. Arguments about morality and politics honestly hurt my brain. Welp, I've pretty much finished my mockery and discussion, if you ever wanna have some kind of a civil argument in the future, feel free to hit me up! I'm gonna go watch some videos instead of typing comments now. Have a nice day, my dude!
Jesus was actually born in 4BC, Jesus could not of been born in Christmas since he was born when land could be farmed, Christmas was originally a Roman pagan holiday to honor the God Saturn were people got drunk and even had gay sex. The way we got many Christmas traditions were from the Germanic people celebrating it and the Romans taking the tradition after they were converted the Catholics
Though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe Christmas has done me good and will do me good so I say God Bless It. Merry Christmas!!
'Santa Claus' is Dutch for Saint (St.) Nicolas???? Where did you get that silly idea from? In Dutch it's Sint Nicolaas or Sinterklaas for short... And Santa Claus is called Kerstman which translates into Christmas man, and in Germany they call it Weihnachtsmann which also translates into Christmas Man as Weihnachten means Christmas in German. So FYI I'd edit that mistake out at 4:16/4:17....
No he is right, the name and gift giving was taken from this sinterklaas festival/holiday but after the americans used it for christmas it found its way back to the dutch as kerstman. So the dutch have both in december.
De kerstman is gebaseerd op sint nicolaas, die wij ook wel sinterklaas noemen. De amerikanen hebben dit overgenomen, alleen schrijf je het als santa claus, maar de uitspraak is hetzelfde.
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord ; thou art great, and thy name is great in might. Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee. But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities. Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men. But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. Jeremiah 10:3-10 KJV bible.com/bible/1/jer.10.3-10.KJV
That is good food for thought! I also like Isaiah 1, but will focus on 10-20. This is just something to consider, no condemnation here, that is above my pay grade! ;-) 10 Hear the word of יהוה, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our Elohim, ye people of Gomorrah. 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith יהוה: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith יהוה: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 *u If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: 20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of יהוה hath spoken it. Shabbat shalom
Using the scriptures, Ernest L. Martin at, www.askelm.com, in, "The Star That Astonished the World," shows us the real birth of Jesus Christ. Read it online or buy the book.
Merry Christmas to everyone who reads this.
Hope you are happy and healthy throughout the year.
Back at ya
Merry Christmas
Thanks, you made me smile, Merry Christmas to you too, and I hope your year will be just as bright and the lights on a Christmas tree!
Likewise, thank you.
Merry Christmas to you.
Christmas was never my favorite holiday. Now it's my #1 holiday. I get to appreciate the love of Christ even more during CHRISTmas. Happy holidays everyone.
amazing what God does upon a person by His grace, from rebels against His name to servants of His courts
@@huydo1930 Glory to God.
Christ wasn’t born on Xmas also it used to be banned here in America by the first Christian settlers for almost 100 years.
@@audi_steve8363 When was he born?
Javier0304 he was born somewhere between April-September. Some scholars believe around Passover and other believe around Sukkot. Either way it wasn’t in December because during his birth in the book of Luke the sheep’s were out on the field at night. Something they don’t do during the winter especially at night
Do you probably know what happens next?
"The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, and just like Epstien they didn't hang themselves there".
Ryan S I'd say that was too much...if it wasn't so brilliant!
Excellent.
And unlike Epstein
They are on and alive
Brilliant, and yet disturbing!! 🤣😬
Tfw you gotta give an internet point on a technicality. Good job sir, begrudgingly given.
And as Tiny Tim observed, God bless us, everyone. Merry Christmas everybody.
Unfortunately, since the ghosts didn't identify themselves as angels, they must have actually been demons right?
@@Sylvertaco Hey, some demons are helpful, as long as he learned his lesson in the end.
@@dislike_button33 - If you are a 'true christian', then you would know that demons are always steering people away from God.
The alternative is that Charles Dickens's story is a good lesson regardless of believing in Christianity, but this channel would NEVER claim that right??? So they must believe the story does work in the eyes of Christianity, ergo the ghost problem.
Does tiny tim wear a beanie?
How about we just stop over analyzing a great novel.
The life of the real Saint Nicolas is much more interesting than portrayed in this video. For instance, he was one of the Bishop present at the council of Nicea. He did give gifts, but under much more elaborate circumstances. He was a defender of the faith.
Is that where Magnus and the Thousand Sons were sanctioned for user of psyker powers?
isn't the council of nicea the reason why we don't have a complete version of the gospel? they ruled to take it out of the bible because it wasn't "Canon" ? 🤔
At Nicea, they held the Council to address the heresy of Arianism and created the Nicene Creed. St. Nicholas also famously punched Arius, the heretic bishop.
Actually we have the complete records of what happened and who attended the council of nicea, and saint nick was nowherer to be seen. Also no records mention him as a bishop.. historians suspect him to either be a lesser clergy that never attended or a medieval fabrication, since the middle ages is the first time he is mentioned.
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No.
Merry Christmas from Finland!!
Hyvaa Joulua from a Yankee-Finn in Baghdad, Iraq!
I’d like to see that Santa’s Village you guys have got someday. It seems really nice compared to North Pole, Alaska.
merry christmas from mexico :)
Merry Christmas from the Philippines!
Merry Christmas to Santeri from Kansas, U.S.
Merry Christmas to all our Christian brothers and sisters!
What about Catholics?
@@i_cri_evertim
Catholics are the first Christians.
Editing to point out that Catholic is not a race but the belief! So outraged protestants who argue the first Christians were Jews missed my point completely.
@@oliver8160 How about the Orthodox Christians?
@@Acidic-ue2ml
They are catholics too. Just not Roman Catholics. They belong to the catholic (universal) church. Its in their Niciean creed that they are catholics.
Both Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians are the first Christians. Both were united as one catholic and apostolic church until the Great Schism in 1054.
@@oliver8160 ok...nevermind the apostles (smh).
I've noticed that pretty much every network has pulled the Charlie Brown Christmas special, which is one of the best explanations of Christmas, outside of the bible. It's not officially Christmas until I've watched it!
It was on last week.
Political correctness, has not gone away, Yet....
No worries... Snoopy is going to space.
What are you talking about? Charlie Brown Christmas can be easily found on TV every year. And even if the cartoon wasn't included, there are plenty of other Christmas movies that have similar messages and Christian overtones.
@@Sylvertaco Settle down! I didn't say "none of them". Will ABC play it? No. Will NBC play it? No. Please name all these _networks_ that play it.
My mom once told me that the reason we exchange gifts on Christmas Day is because the birth of Jesus was God’s gift to us. Either way, Merry Christmas!
because during those days the Jews gained relief from their enemies. That was the month when their sorrow was turned into rejoicing and their mourning into a holiday. They were to be days of feasting, rejoicing, and of sending gifts to one another and to the poor. So the Jews agreed to continue the practice they had begun, as Mordecai had written them to do.
Esther 9:22-23 CSB
Irish Eggs see this documentary th-cam.com/video/fTv9Annd0vY/w-d-xo.html&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0lhA8pchsOHE4PSaicUaiNHxtz8-W8h68HvAq_UMe2ErKBWy6fEGGzyLQ
St. Nick represents God. And with God, we're all just poor people at heart :D
Because the 3 wise men gave Jesus gifts
We wish you the Merry Christmas, PragerU!
"CHRIST is enough for me"
Exactly. This also just makes it OK for people to accept Santa Claus. Smh
Amen
Amen
Amen
Just a small detail that Jesus wasn't born on Dec. 25th.
I heard it was an ancient pagen tradition that was adapted by the church.
MrCOLBSTAH you heard correctly the Bible never mentions JESUS CHRIST birthday nor does it says to celebrate it, it's false and yes it was adopted for power and political reasons
@@swepea6558 cool. I just didn't know which story was true.
I heard that it was a winter vail festival that celebrated a bountiful fall or rebirth for spring or something like that.
Then the church took over those areas and imposed their martial law, but people still wanted to celebrate, so they found a way to stick jesus in there.
And im not religious but isn't easter his birthday anyway? Or... I don't know.
MrCOLBSTAH no it's not His birthday, Easter is also pagan, Jesus' birthday is not written in the Bible.
@@swepea6558 ha! Thats funny.
@@MrCOLBSTAH This is mostly untrue. Christmas is celebrated on December 25th for reasons pertaining to Jewish customs; the idea that a holy man will die on the same day he is conceived. Since Jesus died in spring a couple of days past Passover, the Church took that day, then went nine months later, and assumed he would have been born in December. Also, the date and holiday were already well-established by the early 4th century AD, when Christians were very much persecuted by the Roman Empire and killed by the thousands until Emperor Constantine converted to the faith.
While it is true that Christmas has adapted several pagan customs such as Yule logs and trees which became Christmas trees, this is not unique, nor necessarily a bad thing. This is just a natural result of cultures evolving over time, and can be seen in many other religious holidays, such as the Hindu festival Diwali getting its customs and trappings from older cultural festivals. Also, the church never imposed Martial Law- they were not the ones in charge, after all, and lacked an army to actually impose martial rule even if they wanted to.
Happy Christmas to all christians of the world!
What about the non-Christians?
Read the story of Jesus peace be upon him in the Quran :)
yea!! ONLY us X-Tians!! All y'all other ones jUst get dusty coAL.. #nocoalforyou ! Lol
Ilhem peace be upon mohammed the pedo and his 9 year old bride aysha mashalla masjoeli!
@@MichaelVileleagueofintrigue Are you sure that you are a real Christian? Christianity is the religion which teaches love and forgiveness. maybe you are reading wrong books, check it well. Be a good Christian if you are one of us. God bless you.
Merry Christmas everyone,God bless and have a happy new year! ❤🎄✝️
Merry Christmas!! 💜
I am an atheist and i always look forward to Christmas! Not only for the presents, but for the snow, the decorations, and the friendly atmosphere it always brings. Merry Christmas! I'm happy to see PU make a video that has nothing to do with partisan politics, even though i often like those too. This is just a nice educational video about a great time of year.
Flyin Yoku : God loves you Flyin Yoku. Not sure how you can be a atheist when it’s obviousl man could not have created himself. You ever wonder about the human body? You ever wonder about plant life and the beauty of flowers? Anyway Merry Christmas 🎄.
Atheist here as well. God doesn't exist, but family time is important... So, I dig Christmas.
I liked how many celebrate the festival together in spite of their religions,it always bring such a festive atmosphere.
@@creativetips97 God is much less self evident than those things. Merry hanukchrismas
Christian here. I can't see why people get so militant about Christmas. Believer or not, it's celebrated with only positive customs. People even celebrate in Japan (1% Christian) bcause it's fun!
Be kind to retail workers this time of year, folks.
Agreed. :)
And everyone else too
Ryan MacFarlane ...but they can be so dang aggravating.
And please don’t be Karen’s.
@@ykcubevan4893 Maybe if they were paid better...
Having two young kids will make anyone fall in love with Christmas. Seeing their faces light up as the day grows near is an experience unlike any other.
A nice change in pace rather than the usual "War on Christmas" reminder.
A great reminder though because it is one of the most important battles of our time. Secularists have gotten so bad that only 90 percent of americans celebrate Christmas and people will sometimes say happy holidays! Truly horrifying!
@domhnall777 He isn't wrong. There is a war on Christmas just like there's a war on Christianity.
There is a war on Christmas by a vicious foe that seeks to pillage and co-opt the tradition fully. That great enemy is capitalism.
@@Colddirector Then you can start by bitching at the left and people who support the left for they own and run 85% of ALL the "greedy corporations" across the board! Funny how rich actors and TV stars promote "socialism" yet benefit from capitalism!! Of course the left doesn't give 2 shits about Christmas or Christianity either! Just so you know, capitalism has gotten more people out of poverty than any other system EVER! 120 years ago the poverty rate was over 80% today it's less than 8%! Retailers might "capitalize" on the holiday, but if they didn't "create" there wouldn't be much to "give"!
J and C Gaming I legitimately don’t know if this comment is satire or not.
Happy Birthday JESUS Christ our Lord Jesus Christ
Who is our Eternal KING 👑!
Saundra Wills
Merry Christmas !! 🎄
God bless you and your loved ones.
Lol you know Christmas is a stolen holiday just like Easter Christian's don't have there own holidays they stole them to force and saprese non Christians christianity was built on murder and hate it is not a good mythology to believe in
Juniper it originates from astronomy. Winter solstice. All religions have blood on their hands. Islam is currently the only religion that likes to remain in the Stone Age and keep their hands bloody.
Jebus Christ yes we celebrate every Stone Age holiday today still. From Halloween to Easter these are all outside religious holidays honoring false Gods which later was adopted by the Catholic Church only to expand there empire. It has no roots in the Bible or the teaching of Christ
chulo flow there is no magic sky daddy. All religious texts are nothing more than fairytales. Except the Koran. It’s the magic book of rape and murder written by the homicidal pedophile midget muhammad.
Funny how the "History of Christmas" doesn't once touch upon ideas like Yule, Saturnalia, or the winter solstice.
Exactly what I was thinking. This isn't the true history of Christmas.
Yes I do wonder about how you deal with that side of things. It's interesting how the church over the years dealt with that
@Large Marche Someone got too much coal in their stocking growing up.
Because only those of the Google school of mythology think that those have anything to do with it.
Christians has been celebrating CHRIST MASS for 2000 years, in Constantine and Syria, the pagan sceptic start in 1974.
So you need to stfu, your pagan propaganda isn't working anymore
Forgot to mention all the Pagan roots of the holidays in the Germanic Yule and the Hellenic Saturnalia
Agreed! We don't even know when Jesus was born. His birth-date was chosen by the Catholic Church in a strategic way to convert the pagans who had a celebration on December 21.
I agree that should have been established.
BaronNolanvonStraya
Those aren’t the roots of the holiday. Those are the roots of a couple of the holiday traditions, not the holiday itself.
Jeremiah 10:1-5 (KJV)
Stephen Darrenkamp Holiday Traditions ARE the Holiday. There is no Holiday without Traditions.
God bless us, every one!
~Tiny Tim 🧸🌎📯
Yep, that’s why I put the whole planet in the comment. 💪🏼 🕊
@@PortCanon Many Christmas blessings to you from Canada.
@Kathy D Aww, thank you. I’d love to visit beautiful Canada 🍁 for Christmas one year.
You could swap with us from Florida 🌴
I know who you are now. You're not a box, but a child!
Finally getting recommended PragerU videos.
The best Christmas present the world received was Jesus Christ.
So why don't people give their gifts to Jesus at Christmas instead of hundreds of dollars of gifts to each other?
Christmas gifts started in England - gift Boxing Day when rich people gave gifts to their servants who they mistreated the rest of the year. This one day of gifts was to make the masters look good. The same purpose today - trying to buy love, but with gifts that people don't need (in much of the West), instead of kind behaviors throughout the year. Also shopping addicts get their dopamine hits by spending more money.
Religious people today spend very much money and many days shopping, and very little in comparison in gifts to spread God's Word.
Merry Christmas.I sure everyone can agree that this is a festivals that most are celebrating even when some that the purpose of it is lost,others argue about is origins.
I'll still be attending a dinner with the liberal family members.
Merry Christmas! God bless! I love Jesus and my country!
If you loved Jesus then you’d stop celebrating this pagan holiday.
BrOwN3yer0$eBUD
Shut up
Let people celebrate what they want
Red King I cannot keep my mouth shut when I see a fellow Christian celebrating something that’s biblically wrong.
Believing in God has nothing to do with king and country.. because I love God almighty what I don't idolize or what your land of any kind.. I pledge no Allegiance to no country no King no leader and will not go to war for no country...
It's not biblically wrong to make family and friends happy.
There should have been at least a mention of Dec 25 having no historical connection to the Birth of Jesus as well as some of the prechristian elements of many traditions.
@Ride the Wave Don't get me wrong I'm all in for Christmas but if your not going to cover history don't call it history. I also feel like this opens us up to critics who can say we are misinformed or ignorant. We did take something bad and make it good and that's great but they should have said so in the video.
@Ride the Wave I'm a Christian too, and I love Christmas and the celebration of Jesus' birth, but I can acknowledged that this video does ignore a lot of the history of Christmas. Biblically and historically speaking, Jesus was likely born in Fall. Also, this video leaves out the pagan origins of some traditions, such as the Christmas tree or the choice of Dec. 25th. If PragerU want's to make a history video of Christmas, they shouldn't leave out half of the history.
@@Kevinclearysharpstuff I agree, I'm also a Christian and I love Christmas. I was expecting a little more detail on that in the video. Maybe they should make a second part with the same guy, I like how he told the whole thing.
Jesus is the son of God. Jesus was before he was conceived. Yes he was born on a day and yes his parents had to report the day of his birthday. I think it might be God's will that his birthday got lost through history, because Jesus was with God since the beginning.
@Ride the Wave I love Prager U watch them all the time that's why this is disappointing I expect more from them
I enjoy PragerU and love Christmas but was a little bit dissapointed that you did not mention the Roman origin of the holiday (the tree, etc). Greece, Rome and Christianity are the origins of our wonderful western civilization and our traditions are a mix of them including Christmas.
Because the liturgical feast day of Christmas is about celebrating Jesus' birth, only some cultural customs came from earlier traditions, and since our modern celebration of Christmas comes from the Christian feast day, yeah.
As a person who studies the classical world I'm disappointed you didn't even talk about Saturnalia
Adam Ruins Everything Explains Pre-Christian Christmas, PragerU explains After-Christian Christmas
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@@CatholicWeeb no its not. Quit relying on talkingheads like pragerU for info.
Why would they? Christians destroyed everything Native European and demonized it.
They didn't talk about Saturnalia because of the lie that Christmas is a holiday about the Biblical Messiah and His coming into the world instead of the true reason for the season as the birth of Tammuz the pagan sun god. Read "The Two Babylons" by Alexander Hislop if you want to know the truth.
Why do they need to mention a festival that ends on Dec 23rd?
Except that almost all of the “traditions” we ascribe to Christmas were actually already being done by Pagans. Christianity began by co-opting a lot of Pagans holidays & rituals.
Not the Christianity faith itself, but rather man-made practices established throughout the centuries, especially via Catholicism.
The first "Christmas" was established by Romans who wanted to secretly continue practicing their sun worship rituals (hence why "Christmas" is done on Dec. 25-generally around the time winter solstice when the sun shines more throughout the following months of the upcoming year).
Christians has been celebrating CHRIST MASS for 2000 years, in Athens, Constantine, Aleppo, Egypt and Asyria, the pagan sceptic start in 1974.
So you need to stfu, your pagan propaganda isn't working anymore
@@matthew6335 would be a good comment if it was actually correct. Christianity first started taking hold in europe around the fourth to fifth century, and that's when the winter solstice holidays becam christmas. so you were only off by a couple hundred of years.
@@matthew6335 PAGAN PROPAGANDA LOL ITS FACTUAL HISTORY. The Bible doesn't even mention Christmas. Wonder why🤔.
@@jontaii152 of course you know better than apostles and early church, btw kid Christians has been celebrating Christmas even before its spread to Europe.
In Assyria, Alexandria, Allepo , Constantinople and Athens.
But of course 12 years old with internet knows better
325 AD or CE, winter solstice, Pagan Holiday. You forgot about "Burger Meister-Meister Burger"/Town Mayor-Master Citizen and he hates toys and toys hate him.
Merry Christmas & may God bless us, everyone. 🇺🇸
Merry Christmas!!
The Dec 25th end of year winter solstice celebrations existed prior to Christmas. Christmas originally was marked when the star Sirius rose about the horizon in late August/ early September. Christians usurped the more popular pagan celebration.
Rusty Reno correction: CATHOLICS usurped pagan celebrations. The word catholic means universal. It was Rome’s attempt of merging pagan worship with Christian beliefs, to make a one world religion. I must say, I think they succeeded
@@ItstheHOFF1984 That's right! I recommend to watch and listen *The Truth About Christmas* -series by _David Pawson:_
_"Jesus was not born on December 25, though some believe He may have been conceived then. Mary gave birth nine months later during the Feast of Tabernacles (September). As ’mas’ indicates, this Christian celebration (which Christ never told us to keep) was an invention of Pope Gregory in an attempt to wean British converts from their mid-winter orgy. It marks the ’rebirth’ of the sun after the shortest day, a pagan fertility cult festival whose remnants are still very much with us today covered over with commercial consumerism. In this video David starts with the traditions that make up ’Christmas’ today, how the Church has tried and failed to keep Christmas Christian, and finishes by correcting common Christian inaccuracies that have been perpetuated through our carols and children’s teachings - ’’what the Bible actually says about the birth of Christ’’."_
_Part 1:_ *The Traditions of Christmas*
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_Part 2:_ *The Church and Christmas*
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_Part 3:_ *What the Bible says about Christ's Birth*
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Finally someone speaking the truth!!!
@@nostrandholdings2324 Nowhere in the Bible does it state that the early Jewish Christians had to adapt pagan traditions to appeal to the gentiles. It does state that the gentiles did not have to be circumcised or follow the Jewish food laws.
It's celebrating the birth of Christ. Why don't you lighten up? I agree He probably wasn't born on Dec 25th. So what?! The main thing is we're celebrating the birth of the Savior of the world. Relax. Merry Christmas!
I heard in a Catholic Homily that the reason it’s in December was because December is a month associated with darkness and lack of sunlight (depending on where you live obviously) but it’s associated like that nonetheless. When Jesus was born, it represents the light coming into the world to conquer the darkness (December).
What about the pagan tradition of Yule?
Because that's what "Christmas" was stolen from . Do the research.
No connection at all. Cry more. Paganism has nothing to do with Christianity or Christmas. Stay mad.
Alex did you even watch the video? LOL you pathetic pagans are always so desperate to hype your self importance.
@Alex Rhone Said the WASP who believes all of history revolves around him and that Christians of the first and second centuries in India, Ethiopia and the Middle East simply don't exist.
@Ride the Wave It's relevant because this is supposed to be a video about *the history of Christmas* . I'm a Christian, but it's straight wrong to claim that Christians "invented" Christmas traditions. We stomped on other religions and forced them to follow us, and stole their traditions to stitch together into the Christmas we have now. It's incredibly un-Christlike to force people to believe in Jesus against their will, not to mention that forced faith isn't real faith. They didn't even acknowledge that. I would expect nothing less of PragerU, though. They're one of the least Christ-like "Christian" organizations I can think of.
Merry Christmas!
Epstein didn't kill himself!
You're correct...he died an old man.
Stockings don't hang themselves ...and neither did epstein.
Jeremy Einstein got what he deserved...
Matthew Harter 😂😂
@@STUCASHX please don't get political here. Its meant to be about a holiday.
A happy and blessed advent time to all of Christendom!
Nice to see a nod to the ACTUAL season we are in. 😉
This is the first PragerU video that I will actually give a like.
The whole video, I was expecting it to take a sharp turn into "and the evil Left ruined it!" like every other video but you actually gave a detailed history on where all our traditions came from.
I may not believe in Santa Claus anymore but in Christmas 2017, when I had my own job and income for the first time as part of my transition program, it felt *good* being able to buy gifts for my family. That was the first *real* Christmas for me.
I've been alive for 21 years and just now realized that Claus and Nicholas are really similar sounding names... Well you learn something every day.
Friends: What's your favorite part of Christmas?
Me: *Linus and Lucy*
My favorite part is the way everyone tries to be a better person.
My favourite part is when it's over!
Happy Holi-
Aaaa screw the PC culture! Merry Christmas 🎁🎄!
Merry Christmas right back at ya!!
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@HardikG121which holiday? ;)
@HardikG121 yeah that's not how holidays work
You can't celebrate Independence Day except when it is July 4th
Same for Christmas
@HardikG121 good :)
Don't forget to give lots o' things
You do point out the hypocrisy pretty well
How can any _“History of Christmas”_ completely leave out *SATURNALIA* or *YULE* or go nowhere near Winter Solstice and the related tradition of candlelight…?! Also, no mention at all about why late December was _selected_ to celebrate Jesus's birth, long after his time. This “history” deliberately neglects a lot of our heritage! Shame.
I'm not surprised, as it's PragerU. It's not convenient and therefore it's not mentioned.
@@ShadowCrystallux Christians has been celebrating CHRIST MASS for 2000 years, in Athens, Constantine, Aleppo, Egypt and Asyria, the pagan sceptic start in 1974.
So you need to stfu, your pagan propaganda isn't working anymore
@@ShadowCrystallux btw almost every culture in this world's have winter celebration.
@@matthew6335 yeah? of course, that's the whole point. many countries had winter solstice celebrations, and then christianity came and made them all about jesus. That's why christmas isnt really a legitimate holiday (historically that is)
Because this is christian propaganda that is controlling the narrative and cherrypicking what info fits the religion
You left out the pre-Christian history and connection to the winter solstice. You even allude that the christmas tree had prvious origins.
I've never liked the idea of cutting down real trees to be used for a month and thrown out but I do like planting them in back yard and watching them grow since I have a preference for evergreen trees.
They can only put in so mutch in 5 minutes. They don't really care about the pagon religions even the neo pagan ones.
@Ride the Wave It's connected to a pagan holiday that happens on Dec.25. Idolatry is involved & that's a big Christian no no.
@Ride the Wave Because the whole point of this video was the history of Christmas, and they essentially left out the entire history. Christmas is a continuation of the Germanic festival of Yule in which the ancient Germanic people celebrated the fact that they had gotten through the coldest part of winter. They would decorate trees and hang holly and mistletoe. The evergreen wreaths we make today are a continuation of the wreaths made thousands of years ago, which represent the sun. What they presented in the video is essentially fake history. The idea that Santa comes from some guy who would throw bags of money through windows which would land in people socks is absolute nonsense. It's essentially propaganda.
Webis Tebis, Personally I would mind living in Florida an escape the bleak and depressing fall and winter weather conditions of Massachusetts also instead of evergreens I'd plant a wide variety of palm trees and shrubbery in my yard if I lived in Florida.
Merry Christmas from Vietnam, God bless you.
I'm a Christian and I disagree with this one. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that December 25th was the birth day of Christ. Christmas is a paganistic holiday.
Some of the classic features of Christmas came to Britain with Prince Albert who married Queen Victoria then spread through the Common Wealth.
Let's just hope this Christmas won't be ruined by the left's agenda
It is already facing problems my friend. SJW'S are complaining about Santa being a white male, but this people seem to forget the european origin of Christmas.
Interceptor Before I get into this, I want to preface my statements with the fact that I’m not a liberal.
Christmas Day is not the birth of the “Jesus” it is actually the birth of Nimrod/Mithras/Osiris in his metempsychosis as Tammuz. (A simple google search will show this). The Bible actually speaks against the celebration of this pagan ‘holiday’ in Jeremiah 10:1-4.
Just watch the Charlie Brown Christmas special. It's the ultimate white pill.
@Interceptor Please point the verse and chapter of the Bible where it says Jesus was born on December 25th.
It's already being ruined by the Left agenda since America is quickly becoming a more anti family - anti marriage and anti child rearing country.
Early Christians didn't even celebrate birth of Jesus but his resurrection.
Man of the north Jesus wasn’t born on Christmas.
PurelyFly Somewhere during june would be more appropriate.
True, the earliest Christians didn't celebrate his birth, only his resurrection. But by the year 300, 1700 years ago, some had begun celebrating his birth. I see no reason not to. Should I also not use spaces or lowercase letters, perhaps not use j or u? BECAVSEIVLIVSCAESARDIDNOTVSETHEM. 'Someone else didn't do something' is not an argument. If people had only decided to start celebrating his birthday 20 years ago, I'd do it. Seems perfectly logical to me. Google honors scientists, artists, and various historical figures on their birthdays all of the time. Why shouldn't I?
Sure, the December 25th date probably isn't accurate. In fact, I think it's probably somewhere within a 30 day period of the 25th. I also don't really care that it isn't the exact date. Records from 2000 years ago are pretty hard to come by. We don't even know the birth years - not days, but years - of multiple Roman emperors. All of that said, based on other information people have made estimates - so the date can be narrowed down to two possible month long periods. Either a month long period during early summer or a month period during early winter. The earliest non-biblical sources that we have, one from the 200s and the other from the 300s, guess that it happened in that winter period. And, well, if you're gonna celebrate a birthday, you gotta pick a single day. There are only 365 days in the year, the fact that they estimated his birth to be near the week long Roman Saturnalia festival is a coincidence, in my opinion. Just like how I have the same birthday as two other students in my high school class of only fifty-six students.
Yeah, just the magi at his birth and all the art about the magi among the early Christians found in burial tombs and sarcophagi, and the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. A lot of attention among the early Christians but absolutely not Christmas. That makes sense.
@Isaiah 53 Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus, it has everything to do with Jesus
Merry Christmas from Colombia!
In a world so divided, a single event and day unite us all... Marry Christmas from Argentina
You forgotten about Russian New Years when Father Moroz comes around and gives everyone (including non-Christians) presents. So their New Years is like our Christmas, without a Jesus.
Problem is, that Father Moroz are closer to paganism, that to Christians' saint Nickolas
His whole image was established by soviets governement which deny any religion identification.
Good summary but it ignores the Roman roots of Christmas via the Saturnalia.
And the evergreen boughs/trees (representing fertility gods) of the Celts. And the Yule Log which comes from the pagan tradition of the Scandinavians. That doesn't fit the Prager U narrative. And it certainly doesn't fit with the Biblical instruction of Deuteronomy Chapter 12.
That’s because it is not true.
Using the scriptures, Ernest L. Martin at, www.askelm.com, in, "The Star That Astonished the World," shows us the real birth of Jesus Christ. Read it online or buy the book.
Because those "Christmas deconstruction" ideas are still subject to much debate.
People are nicer during Christmas because they have some days off work.
Edit: Allow me to share a secret on how to improve Christmas for you fine folks...
Make the gifts yourselves, And if you don't know how to make anything that can serve as a gift, Maybe its time to find a hobby.
Yeah, you can visit friends and family also.
@Vash Matrix Depends on what kind of relationships with what kind of people you have. In my case it is quite nice.
That hasn't been my experience at all since at work more seem to be angry, aggressive and impatient in the retail store where I work and out in the parking lot in fact I've gotten lots of dirty looks when I head out to collect carriages and people seem to be watching each other more too which tells me that's there's a lot suspicion and animus out there that just seems to be the vibe I'm getting it's like a lot of people are watching and waiting to see if someone will do something to them.
@Vash Matrix Thanks you too buddy. I have wildly diffrent believes than you, but I enjoy christmas a lot, I think more than some highly religious christians
So incredible! All of it wonderful & based on & surrounding the birth of Christ. Celebrating his life, love, peace, joy, giving, family & everything that is amazing about Christianity! Merry Christmas! 💒
Thank you, channel created by a Jewish guy for explaining my Christmas traditions. And thank you other Jewish people for giving us some of the best Christmas songs ever written.
Merry Christmas 🎄
Trump/Pence
2020 🇺🇸
DAN LAROCA what does this comment have to do with the subject of the video?
BrOwN3yer0$eBUD He said Merry Christmas. Did you even watch the video?
@@sincityblue03 No, he didn't. He's just one of those fun killing fundamentalists who hates Christmas, Easter, and any other time we celebrate the great truths of Christianity.
The Old Saxon what the hell are you talking about. Just butt out if you can’t follow the conversation correctly.
@@theoldsaxon6484 What you think non-Christians think of those holidays: the Grinch
What non-Christians actually think of those holidays: time off with family while the "oppressed majority" fights a fake war on [holiday] nobody else cares about
Although it's based on a pagan holiday, we here in the Philippines celebrate it as Jesus' birthday. Santa Claus isn't really a thing here and at a young age we already know he isn't real, not like how the west lie to their kids. Gifts are appreciated but not a requirement, well maybe in Christmas parties. We wake up at midnight of 24th and the family eats together.
Maligayang Pasko Kabayan 🌟
@@Connor.SG-1Ring Merry Christmas Bai! That's how we say it in Bisaya.
@@facelesstrader1351 Bisaya sad ko, abi ra nako tagalog ka.
This somehow warmed my heart 🥰
Later departing from its pagan roots, Yule underwent Christianized reformulation, resulting in the term Christmastide. Many present-day Christmas customs and traditions such as the Yule log, Yule goat, Yule boar, Yule singing, and others stem from pagan Yule traditions. Terms with an etymological equivalent to Yule are still used in Nordic countries and Estonia to describe Christmas and other festivals occurring during the winter holiday season.
Yeah... I recommend to watch and listen *The Truth About Christmas* -series by _David Pawson:_
_"Jesus was not born on December 25, though some believe He may have been conceived then. Mary gave birth nine months later during the Feast of Tabernacles (September). As ’mas’ indicates, this Christian celebration (which Christ never told us to keep) was an invention of Pope Gregory in an attempt to wean British converts from their mid-winter orgy. It marks the ’rebirth’ of the sun after the shortest day, a pagan fertility cult festival whose remnants are still very much with us today covered over with commercial consumerism. In this video David starts with the traditions that make up ’Christmas’ today, how the Church has tried and failed to keep Christmas Christian, and finishes by correcting common Christian inaccuracies that have been perpetuated through our carols and children’s teachings - ’’what the Bible actually says about the birth of Christ’’."_
_Part 1:_ *The Traditions of Christmas*
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_Part 2:_ *The Church and Christmas*
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_Part 3:_ *What the Bible says about Christ's Birth*
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I thought it was a pagan holiday turned into a Christian celebration
It is but people would rather receive presents than to receive truth
I appreciate there are people who do not ignore this fact
@@Sg-gspagans didn’t have Santa, didn’t have grinch, didn’t decorate evergreen trees, even if it came from pagan it doesn’t really matter because now it’s a Christian holiday, literally nobody is worshipping a pagan god when they celebrate Christmas
@@mickski548you are aware the Christmas is mostly a secular holiday that is even celebrated by non Christians. FYI pagans did decorate evergreen trees during Winter Solstice. Btw the grinch is a Dr Seuss character. 😂
Christmas comes from a Pegan holiday by the way. Also, if you could please point out the part of the Bible when it says December 25th is the birthday of Christ.
Edit: Also, why should we behave so nicely around one month of the year? Any truly good person wouldn't use Christmas as an excuse to be nice and happy to other's and themselves.
Bible isn't the only source of god's message as the protestants would let you to believe. And also a lot pf traditions in Abrahamic religions are derived from older religions.
@@Seannery11
What other place shows "God's Message"? Also, if you consider what he's done, would you really want to worship him? In the Bible, he killed every man, woman, and child, just because he didn't like how they chose to live.
You are correct: To begin with, the word "Christmas" is nowhere mentioned in the Bible. Furthermore, there is no biblical evidence that any of the original apostles ever observed what we know as Christmas. In fact, historians and biblical scholars have clearly demonstrated that Christmas was never observed by the early New Testament Church.
What's more, we observe the wrong day. Jesus was born nowhere near December 25th. This is best illustrated by a well-known Christmas carol, The First Noel. The words, you probably remember, go like this: "The first Noel, the angel did say, was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay. In fields where they lay keeping their sheep, on a cold winter's night that was so deep."
The song is beautiful, but the words do not make sense and are contradictory. What shepherd in his right mind is going to keep his sheep out in the open on a freezing "winter's night"?
True enough, the New Testament says there were "... shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night" (Luke 2:8). But it is a historical fact that shepherds in Judaea brought in their flocks from the fields when autumn commenced (September-October), and sent them back at the beginning of spring (March-April). There is no way Christ could have been born on December 25th
Chocolate Tea spot on.
Beth Mitchell I mean, it’s kinda not. As a Baptist myself, I can say with assurance that God can speak in other forms, direct or indirect. And it all depends on how you interpret things
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
The name of the town of Nagysintmikolas in Hungary get literally means "Great Saint Nicholas".
Christmas started before christ; Saturnalia for Romans and Greeks, the celebration of winter solstice for other indo-european groups(Celts, Germans, Slavs, etc), in general it was a celebration of harvest and preparation for winter, christianity just rebranded and adopted these traditions to fit they're own narrative, even historians would tell you today that Jesus was born probably around March. That's why Christmas is more of a cultural phenomenom than a religious one.
It truly is the most wonderful time of the year. Christmas is what you make of it.
If you choose to be selfish, materialistic, greedy, or apathetic, then Christmas for you, will be a meaningless and commercialized holiday.
If you welcome the birth of our Lord and live the spirit of Christmas, then you'll feel its joy and its magic.
Merry Christmas, God bless all. 🙏🎅
It's a pagan holiday for those wondering.
@Ride the Wave ad hominem at the end? Nice
DARKSHATOW hiya, you are right. Christmas is a disguise for the worship of tammuz.
@Ride the Wave no no he's speaking the truth. Christmas was originally a celebration for the winter solstice. In order to convert the pagans though, Christians allowed the celebration with the condition that it be changed from winter solstice to birth of Jesus(even though its speculated that Jesus was born somewhere around September or some shit.)
Don't automatically think just cause some people don't buy this propaganda that they are "leftist" or "Atheist." You make yourself look more false when you throw the first insult in a discussion.
@@Plainofices but how can you have a winter solstice if the earth isn't round? 🤔
@Ride the Wave Look at what I said vs. what you said and tell me who the ugly one is. I pity the "Savior" who has to deal with you in the after life.
I’m already a Christian but I like it that they tried to incorporate the importance of Christmas
A shame Christmas was originally a pagan celebration that was twisted and adopted by Christians
This is so interesting! I never knew about the traditions that I partake in!
Nicholas was a bishop of a city of Myra in Lycia, the region of Asia Minor. His body parts were stolen by the Normans and taken to Bari.
I am about to instruct my pupils on the importance of this most precious of holidays employing this video.
Happy Sanguinala, citizens!
Sorry to say JESUS CHRIST was not born on the 25!!!
I believe what JESUS CHRIST did for me and my family!!!
Read your BIBLE!!!
Surprised that you guys didn't mention how the date was a pagan holiday before the Church came and coopted it
Cooped? Like a chicken coops?
That was a nice video, although it didn't mention everything. There were some stuff that you forgot to mention, like that Christmas hasn't always been celebrated in December and some Christmas traditions were taken from the pagan traditions of the Yuletide. Christmas was moved to December by the Catholics in about AD 300 to coincide with the winter solstice and take over some pagan holidays of the time and attracted more pagans to convert to Christianity. Jesus probably wasn't born in December, but was probably born in September; but yes it is his birth that separates the calendar. So yea, this video is not completely accurate, but that's ok for a 5:40 minute video. Merry Xmas.
I love that this vid doesn't have much politics but is more of a history lesson. Good Job PragerU your ad didn't trigger me with politics
Merry Christmas from Denmark. Its so important to stand by our traditions these days
The first time a evergreen tree was taken and put up as (undecorated) christmas tree was in 1441 in Tallinn, current Estonia. It was 16-hundreds, when this tradition mainly spread around in Germany.
And another sidenote, decorated christmas tree was first put up in neighbouring country, Riga, current Latvia in 1510. (Though, some evidence would put that also into Tallinn)
Get your facts right. :)
Not to mention that the Christmas tree was taken from pagans in order to convert them.
No horses in Norway during the middles ages, is this a out of season april fools joke? LUL
Thedutchdagger It’s because if they explained the real reason, they’d have to admit that Christmas didn’t start out as a Christian holiday.
@@baronnolanvonstraya5743 whats the real reason
@@baronnolanvonstraya5743 exactly
You left out the part about Christmas taking over Winter Solstice celebrations, Christmas trees actually coming from pagan culture and Jesus' birth being celebrated in summer among other times previously because no one knew when it supposedly happened. Christmas was a co-opting of pagan celebrations just like Easter.
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Too many people want to tie Christmas to pagans based on anecdotal evidence
“Do not worship the LORD your God in the way that these people worship their gods.
Deuteronomy 12:4 GNBDC
Thank you PragerU.
Where ever you are in the political spectrum - Merry Christmas 🎄
To be more accurate Christmas is actually a Pagan holiday that the christians adopted, also known as "Yule." Everything about it is pagan. The trees, the feasting, the stories, the traditions. All pagan.
@Gabe Norman It has nothing to do with my political views at all. How about doing some research and seeing the facts for yourself before committing to full ignorance and stupidity?
“Do not worship the LORD your God in the way that these people worship their gods.
Deuteronomy 12:4 GNBDC
@Gabe Norman fair enough.
@@sbstanf16 riiiight.. and your god committed mass genocides against humanity. No thank you.
Do you know why Christmas is celebrated on December 24/25? In reality we don't know what date Jesus was born, and there's even discussion on which year it happened (between 4 BC to 6 AD), or if he existed at all, since the proof of his existence is pretty weak. The real reason we celebrate on December 24/25 (depending on which country) is because European pagans had a celebration on the Winter Solstice on December 21, and so The Catholic Church chose the date we all know in a strategic way to convert pagans. This shows how Christianity have been affected and influenced by other beliefs throughout history.
Speaking of Norway, in Scandinavia Christmas is called 'Jul', after the Norse pagan celebration 'Jólablót'. Another example of how old pagan traditions still affects us. We might have change the reason for a celebration, but the name still remains. And 'Jul' is one of the most inclusive names, because if you say "I celebrate Jul", it doesn't automatically translates to "I celebrate the birth of Jesus".
Gabe Norman Well hello creotard! Fancy meeting you here.
And yes, the Jesus story is most likely a myth. The various stories about him were written decades after he supposedly died by biased Christians who were eager to promote their new religion. And they copied from other mythological stories. Jesus have many similarities with older pagan heroes, like Heracles, Mithra and Horus. Hell, the story of children being slaughtered is a copy of the birth story of Moses.
The only secular proofs for Jesus’s existence are short passages written by the historians Tacitus and Josephus, but they lived after Jesus, and didn’t give any source for their information.
And even if you’re using the Gospels as evidence, there are contradicts to what miracles Jesus preformed, when he died, who discovered the empty tomb, and even on his birth story. According to Matthew Jesus was born when Herod was king, and that Herod was the one who tried to kill Jesus and slaughtered every babies in the land. The real Herod died in the year 4 BC, and there are no historic records a mass murder of babies at the time, something that wouldn’t go unnoticed by historians.
Luke on the other hand claims that Jesus was born during a universal census that was ordered by the Roman emperor Augustus, and was conducted when Cyrenius was governor of Syria. Augustus never ordered a census across the empire. And while Cyrenius did conduct a local census, that occurred in the year 6 AD. You see, with such contradictions it is no wonder why many start to doubt whether or not Jesus really existed.
And have you ever wondered why the Jew don’t consider Jesus as the Messiah? It’s because he doesn’t fulfill the requirements the Messiah must have accomplished.
What’s most likely is that a man named Jesus existed, but was just a great Rabbi or morality teacher who was executed for blasphemy or for speaking out against the Romans, and who gained cult status after his death. Even amongst early Christians there were disagreements on whether or not he was the son of God. If he were here today, he wouldn’t even recognize himself with the way he is viewed by those who claims to be his followers.
@Gabe Norman
If you don't know that George Washington existed, then you are dumber than you realize. XD
And no, that's not how it works. Not only do you lack understanding of the scientific method, but also how historical events ar being researched. We don't know if the Jesus from the Bible truly existed, because like I've mentioned, there's no evidence from the time he supposedly lived. Most writings about hime were written decades, even centuries after his supposed death, and there's no physical depiction of him before some time around 500 AD.
We know that people like Alexander the Great and Julius Cesar existed both because there are writing about them by both their friends and enemies and physical depictions of them from the time they lived, and because their actions have great impacts on the known world. The same can not be said about Jesus. The biggest impacts of Christianity were thanks to apostles like Paul.
@Gabe Norman Could you be more specific?
@Gabe Norman What's false?
You need to correct your video!
St Nicholas was not from nor bishop of Bari in Italy. He was the Christian bishop of Myra in Lycia, modern Turkey. When the Christian city was going to fall to Islamic armies, Greek sailors took st. Nicholas body to Bari which was then part of the Christian Byzantine Empire. His body has remained there ever since.
Nicholas is from the 3rd century, islam began in the 7th century and they didnt take Anotolia/Turkey until the 10th century
His body was moved in the 10th century
@@grad5257 I did not mention any dates in my post. I did not think that was necessary to the point I was making about St. Nicolas not being from Bari. I could have made my point clearer by adding those dates. Thank you.
Also, St. Nicholas was actually alive until the 4th century. He was at the first Ecumenical Council in Nicea 325.
Irving Berlin also wrote the song, "Happy *Holidays*" for the TV special, "*Holiday* Inn", but Prager U seemed to have forgotten this little tidbit.
Seriously, there's no war on Christmas.
Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and have a happy new year.
12/25 is Biblically documented as the *conception* date of Jesus Christ, if one understands that 'the course of abia' in Luke 1 KJV is a set time of the year, 1 Chronicle 24:10 KJV, (abia is Greek and Abijah is Hebrew of the same word). It takes a bit of study and calculating the journeys of John The Baptist's father and knowing that John The Baptist is 6 months older than Jesus. Luke 1:36 KJV _And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren._ The virgin conception has a higher symbolic meaning of a newly repentant person 'conceiving' God's Word within themselves. The etymology of 'betrothed' is Be Truthed.
Wasn’t a bunch of this stuff stolen from Yule?
Christians has been celebrating CHRIST MASS for 2000 years, in Constantine and Syria, the pagan sceptic start in 1974.
So you need to stfu, your pagan propaganda isn't working anymore
@@matthew6335 um dude christmas is a pagan holiday which was adopted by the church later on.If that is not the case then show me where in the bible is christmas or jesus birthday mentioned?
matthew 6 33 You are trying to universalize european traditions for your dastardly Judaic state of mind
@@TheCommun3 it was made in order to convert people to Christian. In fact some people where still practicing their religion on the down low and instead of having to punish them they adopted practice of pagans in order to really convert them which worked. Christmas is not the only thing adopted they even converted a lot of people with a see we are just a different name of the same God. It's why it became so popular the adaptability of the religion.
Santa Claus lives in Korvatunturi, Finland. Not in North Pole.
Actually, he is buried in Southern Italy. Crusaders stole his body and brought him there in the Middle Ages. It's a beautiful church.
Rovaniemi, no ?
It's my favorite time of year. Merry Christmas evryone!
Everyone loves Christmas in India 🙌always ahead in love,compassion and kindness ☺️
It does my heart good to know that it is Christ's birth that inspires the grandest celebration in the American calendar Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night
Christmas came from the pagan celebration called saturnalia. Child sacrifices was replaced by gift giving And thats the horrible truth.
@Ride the Wave i see, you misunderstood my comment. What i mean horrible is, saturnalia are tradition of child sacrifice.
I'm not a leftist anyway. So chill
Look at this guy,, who doesn't actually know what paganism is, stuck in the medieval belief that anyone who doesn't worship their god MUST be sacrificing children! Look at what you read, my man, what kinda sane person would sacrifice babies? Definitely not a pagan, I can tell you that much. You *do* know pagans worship *NATURE*, right? What's nature gonna do with a buncha pubescents? Honestly, my man, there ain't no way I take you seriously with this bull.
@Ride the Wave To be fair, my comment was directed at the original commenter, not you. I might argue that abortion would be a better fate than suffering at the hands of an unfit parent. I don't quite see what everyone's problem is. Either way, it doesn't have much of anything to do with pagan traditions, as I'm actually studying these religions to see myself to new worship and find nothing but good vibes in the worlds of Wicca and paganism. Not a single hint of sacrifices or anything. (haven't found anything to do yet, so I remain unaffiliated)
@Ride the Wave Well thanks for being cool about it, my man. I do totally respect how you feel and all, and that is an interesting way to look at it. I just personally don't look at it the same way, if I were to look at it at all. Arguments about morality and politics honestly hurt my brain.
Welp, I've pretty much finished my mockery and discussion, if you ever wanna have some kind of a civil argument in the future, feel free to hit me up! I'm gonna go watch some videos instead of typing comments now. Have a nice day, my dude!
Who had just rewatched Home Alone?
Jesus was actually born in 4BC, Jesus could not of been born in Christmas since he was born when land could be farmed, Christmas was originally a Roman pagan holiday to honor the God Saturn were people got drunk and even had gay sex. The way we got many Christmas traditions were from the Germanic people celebrating it and the Romans taking the tradition after they were converted the Catholics
Merry Christmas, everyone. Happy birthday, Jesus. 😀😀 Remember to Keep Christ in Christmas everyone. This is one of the best videos PragerU has given.
Christmas is a pagan holiday you know right?
Though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe Christmas has done me good and will do me good so I say God Bless It. Merry Christmas!!
'Santa Claus' is Dutch for Saint (St.) Nicolas???? Where did you get that silly idea from? In Dutch it's Sint Nicolaas or Sinterklaas for short... And Santa Claus is called Kerstman which translates into Christmas man, and in Germany they call it Weihnachtsmann which also translates into Christmas Man as Weihnachten means Christmas in German.
So FYI I'd edit that mistake out at 4:16/4:17....
I was thinking his mistake was the old American mistake. Between Dutch and Deutsch.....
No he is right, the name and gift giving was taken from this sinterklaas festival/holiday but after the americans used it for christmas it found its way back to the dutch as kerstman. So the dutch have both in december.
De kerstman is gebaseerd op sint nicolaas, die wij ook wel sinterklaas noemen. De amerikanen hebben dit overgenomen, alleen schrijf je het als santa claus, maar de uitspraak is hetzelfde.
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord ; thou art great, and thy name is great in might. Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee. But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities. Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men. But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
Jeremiah 10:3-10 KJV
bible.com/bible/1/jer.10.3-10.KJV
That is good food for thought! I also like Isaiah 1, but will focus on 10-20. This is just something to consider, no condemnation here, that is above my pay grade! ;-)
10 Hear the word of יהוה, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our Elohim, ye people of Gomorrah.
11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith יהוה: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith יהוה: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19 *u If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of יהוה hath spoken it.
Shabbat shalom
Using the scriptures, Ernest L. Martin at, www.askelm.com, in, "The Star That Astonished the World," shows us the real birth of Jesus Christ. Read it online or buy the book.
That's not a Christmas tree, and nobody actually worships Christmas trees anyway, so please take that somewhere else.
2:18
Candles in a tree...what could go wrong?
LOLOL
Way to overlook the entire Norse/Germanic/Pagan roots of the holiday. Which explain most of the celebrations and names the holiday has to this day.
As a 35 year old male, i certainly learned something about Christmas that was surely taught to me when i was a child